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Orange County detectives were dispatched Tuesday to Tennessee, where the search for a former South Florida man considered a person of interest in his parents' deaths came to a bloody end. Local authorities had been searching for quadruple amputee Sean Petrozzino, 30, for a week when they were "notified that a death investigation being conducted by the Memphis Police Department may be connected to the search," the Orange County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. According to a Memphis police spokeswoman, officers pulled over a 2012 Toyota Camry about 5:45 p.m. Monday in the city's Binghamton neighborhood. As the officers got out of their vehicle, they heard a...

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Orange County detectives were dispatched Tuesday to Tennessee, where the search for a former South Florida man considered a person of interest in his parents' deaths came to a bloody end.Local authorities had been searching for quadruple amputee Sean...

Deputy Jason Forgy, who has an official hunting permit, and his hunting buddy, a recently retired Winter Park Police detective, recently bagged whopper of a gator weighting 737.5-pounds, according to a news release from the Orange County...

Another family vacationing in Orlando found out that it's a small world after all.
During a family dinner on Sunday night, a Mississippi tourist, Taylor Dwayne Harris, 21, found out his dad was receiving text messages from -- surprise -- his lover...

Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies said 54-year-old Colin Duncan after allegedly attacking his roommate with a machete and a steak knife Thursday in Orange County, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
And the attack appears to be over the front door...

Grilled Cajun alligator tail, anyone?
Jason Arnold Brewer, of Orlando, is accused of illegally cutting off a 50-inch alligator tail. He reportedly told deputies he used a knife he kept in his Taco Bell pants to kill the gator along the banks of the St....

This mom meant business.
When her daughter, 8, came running home and told her a that a man had tried to abduct her near their home on Friday afternoon, this Orlando mom took matters into her own hands, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
Mom and daughter...

Ashley Fleischmann, 24, a stripper, was busted for shoplifting lacy lingerie in Orlando in the presence of her children, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, reports WKMG News-6 in Orlando.

Orlando native Hector Perez has spent well over $1 million at vehicle auctions throughout the past 15 years.
And Saturday was no different for the local business owner. He purchased a Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Tahoe for a total of $7,000 on Saturday...

Orange County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an armed robbery at the Del Taco restaurant near the University of Central Florida, officials said.
Workers at the restaurant said a man wearing a white sweatshirt walked up to the drive-through...

Federal drug agents raided two Orange County houses and seized about 1,500 pounds of marijuana, an agent reported today.
Two people were arrested, said Jeff Walsh, lead agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Central Florida.
He would not...

Deputies say a 4-year-old boy apparently shot himself in the leg after finding a gun inside a car his mother had borrowed. The Orange County Sheriff's Office says the mother said she didn't know the gun was in the car. The child found it and shot...

A University of Central Florida student was arrested last week, accused of having more than an ounce of marijuana shipped from California to his on-campus apartment, an arrest affidavit states.
According to the affidavit, the Orange County Sheriff's...

Here are your stories for Monday in Central Florida: record number of people visited Florida last year; teens rushed movie theater; sovereign citizen movement in Florida; SNL anniversary show; and more.
1. People are visiting the state in record numbers....

Law enforcement officials pulled a man's body from a pond Friday afternoon along Semoran Boulevard near State Road 408.
Orange County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lourdes Clayton said it appears the man had been in the pond for "a while."
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They were pepper-sprayed, zip-tied and duct-taped during a crime spree in the Tampa Bay area.
So say the victims who testified against their alleged attackers in Central Florida.
Five of the alleged attackers were sentenced Thursday in an Orlando...

A federal jury on Thursday found an Orlando man guilty of carjacking his friend's car and shooting at him in June, officials said.
Nester Leon, 26, faces a maximum 15 years in federal prison for the carjacking conviction, and at least 10 years for the...

Orange County Sheriff's Office divers are searching a body of water near Harbor Beach Apartment Homes, a complex off Semoran Boulevard and Lake Margaret Drive.Officials say the search is related to a robbery case."The dive team is conducting...

A 34-year-old man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a shooting this weekend that killed two people faced a judge Thursday morning in Orange County.Luis E. Pacheco was denied bond and ordered to have no contact with the victims of the...